On a foggy morning, a pair of Penn Central E44 electrics lead an eastbound freight through Earnest Yard at Norristown, PA. Those open auto racks wouldn't be around much longer as vandalism was on ... (more)

A stretch of subzero weather in January 1984 left Amtrak's trouble-prone SPV-2000 railcars unable to propel themselves, so diesels including veteran RS-3s were drafted to keep things moving. Amtra... (more)

On a hazy Chicago morning, a quintet of F-units hit the diamonds at Ash Street Tower on the point of Santa Fe train #1, the San Francisco Chief, just underway out of Dearborn Station. F7 320 leads... (more)

A Boston snowstorm is winding down as Amtrak's South Station switch crew grabs a draft to pull it down to the Southampton Street yard. RS3M 106 was one of three Amtrak RS3s that were re-engined wi... (more)

Penn Central didn't like to spend unnecessary money on paint. Former New York Central RS-3 5333 had its old road name and herald painted out and went back to work in complete corporate anonymity. ... (more)

Three years after the last train rolled here, nature is beginning to take over the abandoned Central Massachusetts Branch of the Boston & Maine in Waltham, MA. The line was railbanked by the MBTA ... (more)

This little Penn Central train consisting of an ex-New Haven SW1200 and an old coach was informally known as the Jitney, and it shuttled the four miles between the New Haven passenger station and ... (more)

On a misty early spring day, a pair of Reading Century 424s lead an eastbound piggyback train along the freight line parallel to the Schuylkill Expressway on the outskirts of Philadelphia. I think... (more)

The coming winter is in the air as Boston & Maine train BJ-3 (Boston-White River Junction) rumbles north through Boscawen, NH, on a November morning, behind an F3/F7B/RS3 lashup. This line, the fo... (more)

A New England rail tradition for many years was the February snow train excursion over the Boston & Maine between Boston and North Conway, NH, that was sponsored by the Boston chapter of the Railr... (more)

At dusk, one of the original United Aircraft TurboTrains running as Penn Central train 3002 between New York and Boston glides across the Mystic River swing bridge on the Connecticut coast. These ... (more)

This Penn Central freight out of Selkirk Yard was southbound at Beacon, NY, on a summer afternoon, about to diverge from the Hudson Line onto the former New Haven Beacon Branch in order to head ea... (more)

A Conrail B23-7 departs the clutter of the Croton-Harmon yard with a Hudson Line work train on a spring morning.

Scrappers have cut into the side of New Haven EP-4 class electric 360 as it meets its end with two others at Cedar Hill Yard in North Haven, CT. The New Haven retired the last of these GE-built 2-... (more)

A typical diverse assortment of Penn Central passenger power awaits assignment at New Haven Motor Storage back in 1971 We see GG1 4872 in PRR paint, a former New Haven EP-5 electric (now PC class ... (more)